"Finding Neverland" film review by Alex Xiaobai

Modesto 2022-04-19 09:01:31

I watched this film with my first girlfriend, and we both cried together at the end, and I was very impressed.

The film tells the story of James Barry, the author of Peter Pan, with a single mother and four children.

The film is full of fantasy, fairy tales, innocence, spiritual resonance between adults and children, and the plot is touching. . .

In fact, I personally think that there is nothing wrong with maintaining a childlike innocence in the depths of the heart, it will make it easier for me to be happy,

Be more imaginative, so that life is not so dull, boring, and uninteresting.

This is a biographical film, the whole film is more childlike and warm,

The founder of Peter Pan, a household name in the West, is the male protagonist. Although the male protagonist is married,

But there is almost no spiritual resonance with his wife. The character of the male protagonist is very eccentric, and the ideas in his mind are also very unrestrained.

His wife was unable to understand and approach his spiritual world.

The male protagonist met the female protagonist by chance. The female protagonist is the mother of 4 children. Her husband passed away, and the pressure of life is relatively high.

The male protagonist was attracted by them and liked to play with the children. During the play, the female protagonist's family brought him new inspiration.

The male protagonist also uses his humor and innocence to make up for the pain of the children losing their fathers.

It is logical that the male protagonist becomes the "surrogate father" of the children.

The relationship between the male protagonist and the female protagonist may be a little bit of love, but I think it may be more of friendship.

The tragic turning point of this film is the heroine's illness, and finally the heroine went to "Neverland".

Think about it from another perspective, a very young child, when he learned that he had lost his mother forever,

That kind of pain should be no different from the feeling of the sky falling.

The place where this film made me cry is the ending part, the dialogue with the male protagonist on the bench under the great grief of losing my mother.

To the effect:

Pete: "Sorry for my bad attitude"

Male lead: "Don't take it to heart"

Pete: "I thought she'd be with us forever."

Male protagonist: "I think so too, but in fact, she is always with you. She exists in every page of your writing (imagination), and she is always there."

Pete: "Then why did she have to die?"

Male lead: "I don't know either, child, whenever I think of your mother, I always think of her sitting in the living room, watching about her family,

What a joy to be on stage with your own little kids, she goes to Neverland, you can go to see her anytime. "

Pete: "How?"

Male lead: "Just believe it"

Pete: "I saw her"

When Pete said "I can see her" with tears in his eyes,

I feel that Pete, the youngest, naughty, and most ill-tempered child of the heroine, has grown up in an instant. . .

I saw a movie review before:

He said to the woman he loved: "I'll take you to Neverland." To the woman he didn't love: "There is no such place."

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Extended Reading

Finding Neverland quotes

  • Charles Frohman: You know what happened, James, they changed it.

    J.M. Barrie: They changed what?

    Charles Frohman: The critics, they made it important... hm, what's it called? What's it called?

    J.M. Barrie: Play.

    Charles Frohman: Play.

  • Sylvia Llewelyn Davies: [distressed] Michael! Where are your socks?